Improvement in clothes-line attachments



D. W. SMITH.

Clothes-Line Attachments.

N0.147,074. PatentedFeb 3J874.

WI NESSES: INVEN'I' UNITED STATES DIYIGHT IV. SMITH, OF FOX LAKE,YVISCONSIX.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-LlNE ATTACHMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 147,074,

dated February 3, 1874; application filed November 22, 1873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DWIGHT \V. Fox Lake, inthe county of Dodge and State of \Visconsin, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in ClothesLine Attachment, of which the following isa specification:

The object of this invention is to provide convenient means fordisposing of clothes for drying after being washed, and to avoid thetedious operation of hanging out the clothes in the ordinary way in theopen air; and it consists in metallic supports or eyes attached to theclothes line, by means of which the line, with clothes attached, may besuspended from hooks in the wash-room, and then de-. tached and carriedto the yard, and then suspended from hooks on the clothes-line posts.

The drawing illustrates my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- Snjrrrr, of

sponding parts.

A represents the supporting eye or attachment. B is the hook. U is thepost. C is the line.

In order to give a proper understanding of l my improvement, I willproceed to describe the manner ,of using the supporting-eyes in theprocess of hanging out the clothes.

One of these eyes is attached to the .end of the clothes-line; othersare attached a proper distance from each other, any of which may heslipped or adjusted on the line to suit the position of the hooks. Toeach of three sides of the wash-room a hook is attached, from whichtheliueis suspended by means ofthe eyes tubes, D D, for the line.

A. The clothes are then hung on and fastened or pinned to the line inthe ordinary way. The line and clothes are now detached from the thirdhook, and the eye of that hook is at tached to the first hook, thusdoubling the line. The line is then carried back and hooked to thesecond and third hooks and filled with clothes, as before, and againdoubled by hooking onto the first hook, and so on, according to thequantity of clothes. The clothes-line thus loaded is readily detachedfrom the hooks and deposited in the clothes-basket: The basket can nowbe carried to the yard by a man or boy, and the line, by means of theeyes, is at tached to the hooks on the ordinary clothesline posts, thusrelieving the waslrwoman of the long and tedious operation of hangingout the e1othesau operation particularly disagreeble in a cold or windyday, and frequently attended with serious consequences.

The supporting-eye A is preferably made of brass or other non-corrosivemetal, having two Through the lower one the line passes twice, as seenin the drawing.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The clothes-line holder consisting plate A andtubes 1) D, as described.

DIVIGIIT W. SMITH.

of eye- \Vitnesses:

Anna BANIA, (l. II. Mot'L'roN.

